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The global tally of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection has crossed 2,600,000. When this article was last updated, there were almost 2,629,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world. The death toll from the potentially deadly virus had crossed 183,000 on the last count, with more than 47,000 deaths recorded in the US alone.*Meanwhile, the United Nations warns that Africa could see over 300,000 deaths in a best-case scenario.
More than 713,000 patients across the globe have made recoveries.
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The largest number of confirmed cases have been reported from the United States, Spain, Italy, France,*Germany, the United Kingdom, and China currently. Turkey,*Iran, Russia,*Belgium, Brazil, and Canada are some of the other countries witnessing a frightening COVID-19 surge.
Experts, meanwhile, believe that the actual number of 2019-nCoV cases could be likely much higher than that reported because many patients have been discovered to be asymptomatic, while several countries are struggling with insufficient testing provisions.
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The novel strain of coronavirus first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, but it wasn*#8217;t until March 11, 2020, that the*World Health Organization was forced to declare COVID-19*a pandemic. On April 14, US President Donald Trump suspended funding to the organization over its handling of the pandemic. Coronavirus cases in the US have surpassed 842,600.
Click on the image to visit the live, interactive global coronavirus mapThe researchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Maryland, US, created the above*online dashboard*in January 2020 to track the spread of the virus across the globe. You can bookmark this map to see live coronavirus updates. The interactive map, which tracks the Coronavirus pandemic in near real-time, collects suspected and confirmed case data from multiple government sources.
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The global tally of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection has crossed 2,600,000. When this article was last updated, there were almost 2,629,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world. The death toll from the potentially deadly virus had crossed 183,000 on the last count, with more than 47,000 deaths recorded in the US alone.*Meanwhile, the United Nations warns that Africa could see over 300,000 deaths in a best-case scenario.
More than 713,000 patients across the globe have made recoveries.
Related:*Google releases users*#8217; location data in COVID-19 response
The largest number of confirmed cases have been reported from the United States, Spain, Italy, France,*Germany, the United Kingdom, and China currently. Turkey,*Iran, Russia,*Belgium, Brazil, and Canada are some of the other countries witnessing a frightening COVID-19 surge.
Experts, meanwhile, believe that the actual number of 2019-nCoV cases could be likely much higher than that reported because many patients have been discovered to be asymptomatic, while several countries are struggling with insufficient testing provisions.
Must read:*East Africa*#8217;s locust plague amid COVID-19 could lead to food shortage
The novel strain of coronavirus first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, but it wasn*#8217;t until March 11, 2020, that the*World Health Organization was forced to declare COVID-19*a pandemic. On April 14, US President Donald Trump suspended funding to the organization over its handling of the pandemic. Coronavirus cases in the US have surpassed 842,600.
Click on the image to visit the live, interactive global coronavirus mapThe researchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Maryland, US, created the above*online dashboard*in January 2020 to track the spread of the virus across the globe. You can bookmark this map to see live coronavirus updates. The interactive map, which tracks the Coronavirus pandemic in near real-time, collects suspected and confirmed case data from multiple government sources.Don*#8217;t Miss:*Photos: April 2020 Chernobyl forest fires as seen from space